"Now here is Orsini alone with his [unfaithful] wife. [...] Orsini grabs the iron fire poker and hits his wife over the head, full force, wham, wham, dead. He drops the fire poker on her corpse and walks briskly out of the room, leaving it for the servants to clean up. Yes. That is the right thing, because this is The Renaissance, and these people are terrible. When word gets out there is concern over a possible feud, but no one ever comments that Orsini killing his wife was anything but the appropriate course. That is historicity, and the modern audience is left in genuine shock."

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Sometimes, morals don't travel well. Often, what is appropriate to one culture at a given time can be repugnant to the same culture at another, or vice versa. Thus, when depicting other cultures, a creator has to choose whether to portray them accurately or not. Many just use their own contemporary culture for everyone in the story for narrative reasons or just to make writing it easier, resulting in an inaccurate and/or anachronistic story. Some, however, research the culture and make an effort to reproduce the attitudes of the time and place accurately, even when they are wildly different to what the author knows or might consider sensible. Thus one ends up with a case of Deliberate Values Dissonance.

In Historical Fiction and Historical Fantasy, this is an obvious necessity to avoid anachronisms; indeed readers may criticize works for failure to reflect the actual historically accurate views as an Anachronism Stew. This may result in an Author Tract, the story condemning or praising certain values or societal norms that are no longer relevant. Be wary, though, for sometimes Reality Is Unrealistic and the deliberately different values end up just as inaccurate, but in the opposite direction—a story could present some value as being a relic of the past even if it's still widespread at the time of its writing, or present a value as common in a specific place or time period even if it wasn't (in fact, the page quote is an example of this; murdering one's unfaithful wife with a fireplace poker was hardly universally accepted as appropriate behavior even in the Renaissance).

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For Speculative Fiction this is also often a necessity, as it would make no sense for radically different societies—even if they are presented as a future version of the "present" society—to adopt exactly the same values. This can result in an Author Tract of a different kind, presenting values the author believes could or should arise in certain situations. Conversely, this could simply be a tool for World Building, especially in stories involving extraterrestrials or otherwise completely "alien" civilizations. When moral systems are so different from a reader's culture that they are almost incomprehensible, Blue and Orange Morality is the result.

Another way to sidestep this problem is to write a family-friendly story set in a small community with a near-homogeneous population, where controversial social or political issues never come up and in fact, can scarcely be imagined.

Examples:

Yuri is shocked to learn that a young servant is to be hanged for attacking her (she knew he was Brainwashed and Crazy), just because under their law, she was a prince's concubine and thus a member of the royal family. She finds out that the penalty for attacking a commoner would have gotten him hard labor, and is disgusted to learn that the servant will die for class issues. Later, she is also very surprised to learn that the child (14 years old) prince Juda has a legal wife and several concubines, and that the people of one town she stops in have no concept of basic sanitation and care for injured people.

When Yuri and her friends briefly stay in Egypt, they're rather shocked and embarrassed by how Ramses's sister constantly goes around topless, apparently due to the heat, and encourages Yuri to do the same. (This is actually Artistic License: people in very hot climates tend to actually wear clothing that covers their entire body to avoid exposure to the sun, with the clothing being loose to allow ventilation. Although the breast-baring style was popular at times in Ancient Egypt, it is debatable to what extent.)

During her stay in Egypt, Yuri learns that a little child that stole food from a temple will get his hand chopped off, and people who cannot pay their taxes will be thrown into jail or similar, and is obviously appalled. Same with the Aladdin example, this was (and still is) a very common thing done to thieves.

When visiting a city-state that's about to be invaded, Yuri is shocked to find the place filled with prostitutes. She tries to order them all out, on the grounds that the soldiers should be focusing on the upcoming battle, but is persuaded that it's better to let a few stay, because the men use them for stress relief. The implication is that it's normal for prostitutes to be hanging around like that.

When Ramses is abducting Yuri, he tells her off for struggling against him when he's being so "nice", which he defines as "not raping her". Yuri is shocked by the audacity of this, because naturally she sees kidnapping as automatically not nice behavior and not raping someone isn't worthy of praise.

Yuri is noted to be a very cute girl by modern standards, but in the ancient times, she's often called scrawny and boyish, even somewhat ugly. This is due to the fact that beautiful women in ancient times were expected to be curvaceous and voluptuous, which Yuri is definitely not. While a number of men do end up falling for her, the story makes it very clear that they're attracted to her personality and willpower, rather than her looks.

This is played with a lot in Axis Powers Hetalia. A constant source of jokes is to have two Nations discuss aspects of their culture (clothing, food, mythology, etc) and watch their shocked reactions to each other. One particular Running Gag is Japan and America visiting each other's houses. Japan is overwhelmed by how huge his order of French Fries are, while America has a Heroic BSoD over how small the same order is, in Japan. Japan is shocked by the bizarrely-colored cakes America bakes (even wanting to take its picture) and America has no idea why a beautiful woman in Japan's house just gave him a packet of tissues for free (it was a way to advertise a sex club). At one point, Japan thinks America is a wimp for crying in fear over a movie about ghosts, while Japan himself just makes jokes about it. Japan tries to make America braver by giving him a terrifying Japanese video game to try. Instead of being scared by it, America thinks it's hilarious and replicates one of the ghosts, much to Japan's terror. That particular story ends with Japan thinking, "I have no idea what scares this guy!" (The last story, incidentally, was taking from an actual example of Values Dissonance the artist experienced. He'd watch Americans freak out over ghost movies that the Chinese guys in the room laughed at, while the Americans laughed and made jokes about Japanese horror films that the Japanese people found terrifying).

Being Able to Edit Skills in Another World, I Gained OP Waifus has Nagi try to free a slave, Cecil Pharot, that he purchased solely for her knowledge of the New World he was dragged into, after carefully questioning her. On modern Earth, such an act would be considered a mercy. In this New World, she was insulted, and dismayed, thinking he was treating her like trash, trying to throw her away. It took a lot of apologizing and head patting for him to convince her she was wrong.

Black Butler has some fun with this. Elizabeth doesn't have any problem with Nina Hopkins sexually assaulting Mey-Rin; after all, Mey-Rin is just the hired help, and hell, Elizabeth practically does the same thing. No, what makes her gasp and blush is Nina showing off her legs.

A Bride's Story takes place in the late 1800s and is full of this, such as how Amir is a Christmas Cake at the ripe old age of twenty. The very premise is an example in itself: Amir has an Arranged Marriage to a twelve-year-old boy named Karluk.

Cells at Work!: It's a requisite in order to properly present the anthropomorphized cells' functions. While all are represented as living in a standard-looking society, giant disasters happen on the regular, platelets are depicted as child workers (due to their size), and the immune system cells have no qualms killing civilian cells that have been infected by a virus that they could not defend themselves again, as they now present a threat to the body as a whole. If the whole context was removed, this would very much sound like a Crapsack World. This is briefly lampshaded by Cancer Cell during his own arc as he is defeated, shouting that all he's done is coming to this world, and yet the whole world is against him. U-1146 replies that in spite of this, he has no choice but to kill him, as he represents a danger to the entire world they live in.

Most people don't seem to mind that their government is a military dictatorship, just that it's an incredibly corrupt and amoral one. Roy Mustang's dream is to reform the parliament, but other members of the upper brass are perfectly happy with the dictatorship. Any reform seems to be a long time coming as Fuhrer Grumman seems to have no interest in it.

The Conqueror of Shamballa movie has Ed living in Germany just as the Nazi party is rising to prominence, so there's plenty of anti-Jewish and anti-Roma prejudice going around.

Played for Laughs in Girls und Panzer: In-universe, tank combat is considered intensely feminine (much like naginata fencing traditionally was in Real Life Japan), and the main characters often make remarks about how weird it would be if a boy was interested in tanks. The series has a mostly male fanbase, and many fanfics involve boys getting involved in tankery.

In the anime/manga of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, slavery provides the economic backbone for Pars and honourable characters such as Kishward has slaves. Many traditional nobles despise Narsus for speaking about abolishing slavery and actually freeing his own slaves. When he was younger, Arslan genuinely believed for the Lusitanian prisoners of war, it would be beneficial for them to become slaves so they wouldn't have to worry about meals again.

The Irregular at Magic High School is actually set in the future, but focuses on the very hidebound culture of magicians. Arranged Marriages are the norm, aristocrats are expected to keep their bloodlines 'pure' by not marrying into 'lesser' families, and genetically engineering one's slaves is perfectly acceptable.

This is a major theme in many episodes of Kino's Journey as most of the lands (in this fictional world) Kino visits have morals or laws that seem outright appalling. It's stated by several characters that they'll come across places that will seem shocking to Kino, but normal to the residents of the country (usually). Kino has a rule to try not to judge or interfere, part of why she leaves a country after three days, regardless of its state.

Subverted in the first Sound Stage for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, where Fate is hesitant to ask Nanoha to take a bath with her since she isn't aware that shared bathing is just as acceptable in Japan as it is on Mid Childa.

A double whammy in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Not only do the various dragons have issues understanding humans due to being dragons, but all their information on humans up till this point is based off an entirely different culture whose values are nearly as alien to modern Japan as they are to the dragons.

The Mouse character Mei was raised outside of normal society to be a Sex Slave. This affected her in many ways, the strangest of which is that she has no problem with talking very candidly to people about their fetishes.

Perhaps the earliest example in Naruto, the Land of Waves arc shows that Naruto (along with Team 7) are unsure about being a ninja after witnessing what happened on The Great Naruto Bridge, along with the general oppression that Haku and Zabuza faced in the country.

In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka (who is a quarter Japanese and grew up in Germany) is baffled upon learning that none of the doors in Misato's apartment have locks. Misato then explains that it's a cultural difference, as in Japan, locking yourself in your room and separating yourself from others is considered quite rude. Comparatively, very few Westerners would see anything odd about a teenager locking her bedroom door in order to ensure privacy.

In Ojamajo Doremi this sometimes happens with Momoko, who was raised in the United States and thus tends to experience Culture Clash while adjusting to living in Japan.

When she first transfers to the Ojamajos' school, Ms. Seki asks her to take out her earring since earrings aren't allowed in many Japanese schools. Momoko has trouble dealing with this, both because wearing earrings to school isn't a big deal in America and because her earring is a Tragic Keepsake.

She openly criticizes Hazuki and Onpu's lack of experience in cooking, but she doesn't understand why that offends them. Aiko explains to her that it's not in Japanese culture to be very blunt and confrontational.

In the Jaya flashback story in One Piece, the Shandians were willing to sacrifice Calgara's daughter to their snake god because their village was plagued with disease and death and they believed this would appease the snake god. The explorer Noland did not take this well. After stopping this, Noland is able to use science to treat the sick and becomes good friends with the tribe's chief. Noland comes to realize the illness came from some infected trees. The only preventative measure to stop the illness is to destroy the trees. Those same trees, he didn't know were believed to carry the souls of the past members of the tribe and destroyed them without telling Calgara about why it had to be done. They were banished the island, but upon learning why Noland desecrated the trees, Calgara realizes his own mistake and rushes to apologize and tell Noland he is welcome to come back.

In The Rising of the Shield Hero there exists slavery, public executions as entertainment, and the wholesale slaughter of everyone associated with an enemy of the state. All of these are considered perfectly normal and acceptable by the residents of the world. Naofumi on the other hand is squicked when attending executions where the people are happily cheering but reminds himself that it used to be common on Earth in the past.

Naofumi himself comes to own multiple slaves over the course of the series due to being so cynical and jaded initially that he can't trust other party members unless they're magically bound into obedience. However, due to the fact that demishave no rights whatsoever in Melromarc, being a slave with a decent master who treats them well is actually a step up from being free, because at least then they have legal protections as property. Thus, all of Naofumi's slaves eventually develop Undying Loyalty towards him to the point of refusing to be freed.

As The Rose of Versaillesis extremely accurate in depicting pre-Revolutionary France, this happens regularly, with two of the most extreme examples being Madame de Polignac's favorable attitude regarding Arranged Marriage between her teenaged daughter and a man in his thirties and soldiers of an Household Regiment quipping how strange was having a king that dressed modestly and loved his people (the specific situation being Versailles' gardens filled with snow and Louis XVI showing up in a practical coat to order the guards to hire the poorest citizens of Paris to clean up and pay them well).

Quite sympathetic protagonist Lawrence considers slavery a necessary and productive trade, even after nearly being forced into slavery to pay off a debt. Meanwhile his companion, Holo, who is a wolf in human form, has a lot of wolf-like mentality; for example, she tends to focus mainly on the now, especially when it comes to stuffing her face full of food, despite Lawrence's complaints about how much money she costs as a result. A great deal of the show's entertainment consists of the two judging each other by their own set of values, and especially in Lawrence's case coming to wrong conclusions because of it.

Holo sees absolutely nothing wrong with being naked, she is a wolf after all. It outright angers her that Lawrence expects her to be clothed.

Used to build tension in the "bankruptcy" arc; most viewers, and in-universe Holo, see no reason why Holo tagging along when Lawrence goes to ask for loans to help with his debt is a problem. Lawrence's friends, however, make the assumption that Holo is some "arm-candy" that Lawrence went broke trying to impress and now he's still trying to keep her, hence the comment one finally makes that reveals to Holo she's the reason why they have all refused to help Lawrence.

Stepping on Roses is about a marriage of convenience between a poor girl from the Yokohama slums who is only familiar with traditional Japanese culture, and a very rich man who has been educated in the Westernised upper class of Tokyo. Naturally, they clash a LOT in regards to how things are done at home, how to dress up, what kind of behavior they should follow, etc. (And then there's how the guy is a borderline Bastard Boyfriend, but that's something else.)

In Tenchi Muyo! Aeka is engaged to marry her biological half-brother, which she explains to Tenchi with little more than that's how we do things on Jurai. It's played with later on in the OVA, and then outright subverted in the spinoff material. No one in the family (except Aeka), expected the marriage to go down, and the whole point was to keep anti-integration activists from supporting Aeka as an alternative to Yosho as Emperor. (This raises several questions when you realize that Aeka's grandmother, Seto, is adopted, and that the current Emperor is of mixed blood himself.)

Thorfinn has no problem with his comrades raping women, though he doesn't personally join in. Likewise the slave trade is treated like a normal business by most of the people shown.

Leif is later shown to be the Stay in the Kitchen type regarding the role of women, despite being a genuinely nice guy otherwise. Needless to say, feminism and gender equality weren't exactly all the rage in 11th century Europe.

Used as part of the Deconstructor Fleet presented in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. The people of the Synchro Dimension don't care that the losers of the Friendship Cup are Made a Slave, something which horrifies Yuya, as he considers duels something only for fun.

In Goddess Creation System, modern girl Xiaxi finds herself in ancient China as a result of Plot and finds her values clashing with the horribly entitled nobility she has to serve. Case in point, she's given a 'trial run' to see how things working before starting her mission for real and is almost immediately executed and used as fertilizer because someone used her as material for a rude joke.

In "Ramadan" the Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid, regarded as a paragon of justice by his contemporaries, has several torture chambers in his palace and not only has a harem of wives, but also several underage boys (though they appear to be at least in their teens), which were common practices at the time. Immortal characters often suffer Values Dissonance about their own actions, such as Hob Gadling's guilt over his involvement in the slave trade.

At one point in "August", which is set in Ancient Rome, a disguised Emperor Augustus meets a man who was born into slavery, but was later freed and grew up to become a wine merchant with his own large collection of slaves. This is treated as an inspirational Rags to Riches story (as it would have been at the time), with no one finding it odd that a former slave would take pride in owning slaves of his own.

In the Dead Girl miniseries, dead 40s heroine Miss America and dead 00s hero the Anarchist get along poorly at first because, well... he's black. She even refers to him using the n-word at one point.

MAD's parody of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "Throbbin' Hood: Prince of Heaves" parodied both the movie and, at the end, this trope. When King Richard returns, he informs all of the loyal peasants and outlaws who've helped restore him to his throne that now they shall all live as they have always lived before (to much applause and cheering)... with no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, no freedom of religion, and absolutely no questioning the divine right of kings. The cheering stops and the suddenly enraged outlaws all throw things at Richard and tell him to "Get lost, baldy!"

In Marshal Law, the members of the Jesus Society of America can hardly see an Asian person or hear a German word without coming to the conclusion that they've become stranded in a parallel universe where the Axis won World War II. Oh, and Marshal Law sets the record straight that these guys were legitimately not real heroes by any stretch of the imagination.

In Strontium Dog, during a story detailing how Johnny and Wulf first met, Wulf and his Viking pals celebrate a good raid by killing a bunch of slaves and splattering their blood everywhere. It's all in good fun.

In an issue of Cable and X-Force, Doctor Nemesis asks a nervous Forge "Where's [his] pioneer spirit?" Forge, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, immediately takes offense to the question, since his people obviously have a far more negative opinion of pioneers than white Americans do.

Warren Ellis's Crécy is a warts-and-all depiction of the famous Battle of Crécy in 1346. The narrator acknowledges the dissonance, describing himself as "a complete bloody xenophobe who comes from a time when it was acceptable to treat people from the next village like they were subhumans" and admitting that by modern standards his side have been "acting like evil pricks", but insists that the other side was even worse.

The Ultimate Marvel version presents Cap with some rather modernly distasteful attitudes, as part of a more "realistic" take on what a soldier and average American citizen from 1940 would really be like, especially if he time-skipped to the 2000s. Most prominently, he's a Noble Bigot, a firm believer in My Country, Right or Wrong (as seen during his confrontation with Ultimate Nuke), and he holds an infamous disdain for the French. The last is probably meant to reflect a US soldier's loathing of the French as a whole for capitulating to the Nazis early in the War and forcing many US soldiers to die trying to free the French from their own government, though it's rather ahistorical. America was still rather Francophilic at the time — General Patton adored the country — and anti-French sentiment only really picked up during the 1950s under deGaulle's rather abrasive leadership of the nation. This contrasts with 616-Cap, who worked with the Resistance and hates portrayals of the French as cowards: "The government surrendered. The people never did."

An inadvertently inverted version cropped up in The Ultimates 3. Cap's horror and disgust at Wanda and Pietro's incestuous relationship was framed as him being out of touch and old-fashioned in the face of his teammate's casual acceptance of it. Given that virtually everyone in the modern era considers incest to be... icky, he comes off as the Only Sane Man.

The idea is subverted in an issue of Young Avengers. Wiccan is shocked when Captain America expresses approval for his gay relationship with Hulkling, figuring that someone born in the 1920s would not view homosexuals in a positive light. (Oddly enough, the most common backstory for Steve Rogers has him grow up in a prominent gay neighborhood.)

During Ed Brubaker's Captain America run, there was a one-shot where the Winter Soldier teamed up with the Young Avengers. Though he got along well with the black teen hero Patriot (he was friends with the black Human Top and the Japanese-American Golden Girl during WWII), Kate Bishop called him out on his language after he referred to a group of Mooks as "pansies." He shrugged it off by saying that he was from the 40s, and thus had no idea the term was considered a slur on homosexuals in a modern context. Which is itself ahistorical as pansy has been used as a slang term for gay men since the 1920s.

In the 70s, Cap and The Falcon fought William Burnside and Jack Monroe, the Captain America and Buckyof the 1950s. Both were decidedly racist and sexist, with Jack in particular hurling racist insults at the Falcon and insinuating that Sharon Carterwas a weakling because she's a woman. Burnside ultimately graduated to a full-fledged Evil Reactionary supervillain, a willing ally of the neo-fascistic alt-right "Watchdogs" and even of the Red Skull in their fight to forcibly restore American culture to a 1950s conservative's version of "the good old days".

At least one comic book version of Xena: Warrior Princess walked back some of the show's Anachronism Stew by showing a slight difference of attitudes toward slavery between Xena and Gabrielle. When presented with a Roman band of slaves about to be auctioned off, Gabrielle is appalled at slavery in general (not a common attitude in classical Rome) and in particular, that one of the slaves is a pregnant woman. Xena, in contrast, is generally convinced that the (otherwise all-male) slaves must be criminals who've done something to deserve their situation, but makes an exception in the pregnant woman's case as it seems improbable to her that a pregnant woman could be guilty of any serious crime. Xena and Gabrielle thus agree to go buy the woman free, each for their own reasons — but leave the rest of them to be sold. Conversely, while touting the various qualities of the slaves, the auctioneer not only flogs how strong one particular big black guy is, but adds "...and smart! Nubians are smart! You'll never have to tell him anything twice." (If a slave auctioneer in America's antebellum Old South had advertised a slave's intelligence, he would have had a hard time making the sale; a smart "uppity" slave was considered a likely flight risk. Roman masters, in contrast, regularly encouraged their slaves to learn a trade and buy themselves free so they could buy younger slaves to replace them and wouldn't have to pay for older slaves' upkeep when they were too old to work.)

Robo: 'Scuze me. Lovecraft:Ah! Look, it's attempting to communicate. No doubt the savage thing knows language as a house pet knows its reflection in the mirror. The sense is taken in, but the process, the meaning, is forever lost. Robo: Yer razzin' me. Lovecraft: See how vainly it cobbles together a string of sounds not unlike words? Take. Us. To. Magic. Thunder. Man.

A storyline has the team finds themselves in America in 1907. There, they meet a girl named Klara Prast. Klara is more upset at the possibility of them recruiting her for a union than the fact that she was forced by her parents to marry a man who is old enough to be her father, and who beats her and is implied to rape her. Molly fails to realize this when Klara alludes to it; Karolina does. Later, Klara refers to Xavin in female, black form as a "negress" and is disgusted at female Xavin and Karolina being intimate.

The same storyline has an instance where Karolina takes an evening stroll and is mistaken for a prostitute by a creepy man, on the grounds that that's the only sort of woman who'd be walking around the city at this time of night. When she tries to correct the mistake, he refuses to listen and drags her into an alley. One beat panel later, he goes flying across the street and Karolina comments "Looks like history just lost another buff".

The 2017 series has a more subtle case, where Gert comes back from the dead still carrying her Bush-era cynicism and distrust of adults and authority figures, which puts her at odds with her teammates, most of whom are approaching adulthood and have realized that such attitudes aren't terribly conductive to getting a job or an education.

Occurs in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, where Wolverine is mentally regressed to childhood and believes he's still living in the 1800s. He ignores Kitty Pryde's orders on the basis that she's a woman, calls Armor an "Oriental," and refers to the Japanese language as "Heathen funny talk."

Regular Shazam villain Black Adam is Captain Marvel's predecessor in the distant past. Five thousand years ago, he was a great hero who rose up from slavery, freed his people from the cruelty of an evil tyrant, and ruled over them for many years as a just, wise, and beloved king who bravely fought to protect them and brought them safety, peace, and plenty. But in the modern age of democracy and superheroes who respect the sanctity of life, his once Grade-A heroic methods look rather barbaric.

Likewise, in the "Obsidian Age" arc from JLA, the team faces off against a sort of proto-Justice League (known simply as the League) that was formed thousands of years in the past. Martian Manhunter immediately notes that the members of the League have a distinct advantage over the modern heroes, as unlike them, the ancient heroes come from a time where 21st century standards of morality do not apply, meaning they have no problem with killing their enemies to save the day.

The 2009 Marvel MAX Dominic Fortune series by Howard Chaykin is set in the 1930s, and is absolutely drenched in this trope. All the main male characters throw racial, sexual and Antisemitic slurs around with careless abandon — even the ones who aren't unrepentant Nazi sympathizers — and treat women mostly as animated sex dolls who exist solely for their sexual gratification. The women also take any opportunity to get their clothes off and have sex, but that can probably be chalked up to a different trope.

Usagi Yojimbo is famous for it being a scrupulously well-researched depiction of feudal Japan, the funny animal characters notwithstanding, including its social attitudes to a certain degree. For instance, Sanshobo told the story to Usagi of how he failed to save the son of his master from falling to his death. Sanshobo told his own son there was only one to make up for that failure; his son stated he understood what was involved, and deliberately leaped to his own death. While the average Western reader would be horrified to see a tragedy compounded by another, neither Sanshobo nor Usagi dispute that was the right thing to do in their eyes.

Forever Evil: Earth 3 is an entire world where heroism, justice, and the basic good are considered foreign

The Shadow had a comic series revival in the 1980s where he returned from a complete isolation he began in 1949, and still had all the cultural attitudes of a 1930s aristocrat. Amusingly enough, his sons grew up in the same isolation, and were comically oversaturated with 80s culture.

Superman & Batman: Generations, as part of its total aversion of Comic-Book Time, has the characters behaving in era-appropriate ways. In the 1939 chapter Superman gladly helps Batman pull a High-Altitude Interrogation, while in later chapters he's adopted his famous Thou Shalt Not Kill policy and even insists that he be punished for killing the Ultra-Humanite, even though the jury was convinced it was an accident that happened during self-defense. Likewise, in the same chapter Lois Lane describes cigarettes as if she were filming a cereal commercial, but has an entirely different attitude decades down the line when diagnosed with cancer.

Marvel's Civil War used this in-story when a member of Alpha Flight mentioned that the conflict and angst over the Superhuman Registration Act looked ridiculous to heroes outside the United States as many countries apparently had some form of registration already without it being a source of drama. Alpha Flight's members in particular have to be registered with the federal government: Department H is part of Canada's military. Various X-Men characters also pointed out that the vast majority of non-mutant heroes had failed to speak up when various versions of a Mutant Registration Act were being pushed by the government and so had little sympathy for either side.

In the first issue of Muties, the main character says that this is the story of how he became a hero. His "heroic act" turns out to be murdering a mutant classmate.

Due to the fact that Transformers don't reproduce sexually, there are no taboos or stereotypes regarding sexuality or gender. Two Transformers of the same gender being in a relationship is not viewed as any different to two of the opposite gender being together.

Bigotry is based not on things like color or orientation, but on things like what alt mode you have or what manner you were built in. Transformers who choose not to transform and have their t-cogs removed are often seen as odd.

At one point the crew has to make sure that a bar permits mechanical lifeforms, suggesting that racial segregation is allowed to be practiced in the galactic community. None of the characters complain about this or see it as unreasonable.

Most Decepticons believe that every race and culture has a right to defend or sustain itself no matter what. This belief goes to the extent that raids like those performed by Vikings are considered justified if they're being done for survival purposes; for example, in issue 12 we see a Decepticon battalion who kidnap natives on a planet to use for Pink Alchemy and don't consider it wrong because they're starving and desperate.

Cross culture problems occur in-universe; Autobots strongly believe in a mix of democracy and egalitarianism, while Decepticons believe in a sort of fusion of communism and meritocracy. At one point Krok finishes off an already wounded enemy and none of the Scavengers react much, while First Aid has a guilt-induced breakdown after killing the defenseless Pharma. Autobots allow members to follow whatever beliefs they want, while Decepticons are almost all atheists and tend to talk down to those who do practice religion.

The Transformers from the colony world Caminus worship the Primes — including Optimus Prime — as deities. This causes some problems when a group of them tries to proselytize about Optimus in a Decepticon ghetto.

Quite a few Autobots as well as Decepticons look down on the organic races as inferior and weaker, although Autobots do tend to have more respect for human culture.

In Spider-Verse, Spider-Man Noir comes off as a bit sexist and racist to his fellow Spiders. He's from a world where it is essentially the 1930s.

In the very first issue of Paper Girls, one of the protagonists insults a group of bullies by calling them "faggots" and insinuating that they have AIDS. Brian K. Vaughan has said he was aware the scene would upset gay and lesbian readers, but that he felt it was important to establish just how rampant casual taunts about sexuality were in the 1980s. Mac, the girl in question, also smokes heavily without any regard for what it'll mean for her health, despite being a kid. When the girls later travel to 2016, they find out that Mac ends up dying from leukemia, likely brought on by her fondness for cigarettes.

Alan Moore's 1963 is a Retraux meant to emulate Silver Age Marvel comic books, right down to the artwork, writing style.... and the rampant sexism and heavy-handed anti-communism that were commonplace in early Marvel comics.

In De cape et de crocs, which takes place in the 18th century, a scientist comments that white-skinned savages must be more likely to listen to reason that their ebony-skinned brethren. Amusingly enough, the one dark-skinned member of the tribe proves to be just as enlightened as the heroes.

In the Greece of the 1200s BC DC's Hercules would have been a genuine hero. He hasn't evolved much, however, which makes him a pretty dark character by modern standards and occasional outright villain for Wonder Woman.

Ultimate X-Men: Xavier's plan is going well, as he has negotiated an halt to the Sentinel initiative and a human-mutant summit. He is pleased with it. Cyclops, however, wants equal rights, now. Xavier points that this usually a juvenile attitude, and as an adult he knows patience, seeing the bigger picture and taking slow but secure steps instead of rushed ones.

Very common in the chilean comic Mampato, where in his multiple trips in time and space our heroes have encountered things like slavery, racism, sexism, disproportionate punishments (Twenty lashes for stealing an apple!) , Human Sacrifice, etc, etc, in addition to a fairly anti-ecological treatment of wildlife, such as when chilean farmers use traps to kill condors, because they steal the young of the cattle, something that in real life the condors, which They feed on dead animals, they never do.

A customer at Flo's diner is talking about all the wonderful things about The '50s and how America going back to that time and those values would be better for everyone, and Flo replies that she agrees and will turn the diner retro, "starting with this vintage sign..." She writes something down and shows it to him, but with her back to the "camera," all we see is his horrified reaction. In the next panel, we see what the sign says: "WHITES ONLY." The man concedes, "Well, maybe not better for everyone."

Danae visits an alternate universe in which every person is given one wish. It's revealed that Clarence Thomas (real life Associate Justice of the Supreme Court) wished for the United States Constitution to be interpreted as the Founding Fathers originally intended, and it is implied that he is now a servant/slave because of it.

Fanfiction

Invoked in The Conversion Bureau fanfic TCB: A Beacon Of Hope. The New Athenians are newfoals who rebelled against their programming and created their own society, and while New Athens is at worst Crapsack Only by Comparison and anyone immigrating from Equestria can live there comfortably the newfoals really love playing up how much they hate ponykind and everything Celestia stands for around anyone who actually agrees with Celestia.

Embers shows many cultural clashes between the Earth Kingdom, Water Tribes, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. For one example the peaceful Air Nomads were so good and kind due to being brainwashed, and would exile those who disagreed from the temples. Chapter 28 offers this gem:

Katara: Good people had good children. And evil people, well they didn't have them anymore, but that was what ice floes were for. Zuko: You push your enemies off ice floes when nobody's looking. We kill them in the arena where everyone can see. Who's sick? Katara: Everybody knows those you don't name have to die! Zuko: If someone gets killed in an Agni Kai? Believe me, everyone knows why they had it coming.

Hivefled: To the readers, the Parental Incest is disturbing, but trolls don't have any concept of incest due to their Bizarre Alien Reproduction meaning that most trolls never meet their children. The trolls are more upset by the idea of moirails reproducing together, as they're supposed to be Platonic Life-Partners. Similarly, blood sacrifices are usually pretty normal in the cult of mirthful messiahs — the Grand Highblood is just breaking the rules by keeping his victims' ghosts. Later on, when the trolls meet the humans, values clash. The trolls are shocked that humans sleep on beds (a.k.a. "concupiscent couches", used only for sex by trolls), bury their dead (trolls think death is something to be faced, not hidden), have separate words for consensual sex and rape (among trolls rape is disapproved of but not actually illegal, victims are given little sympathy, and the word for it is actually the word for the consensual variety pronounced more patronisingly), and don't eat babies (troll grubs are born in such vast numbers that they'd strip the planet bare if significant numbers weren't eaten).

Like with the canon examples, writers love using this trope with Axis Powers Hetalia fics. Unlike with canon, they sometimes like to use it for Darker and Edgier examples, along with having it be Played for Laughs. Fic also often uses dissonance between the views of the nations and those of normal humans.

Anthropology: Lyra is obsessed with humanity, and adopts some of their habits, like her sitting and wearing clothes, but most ponies are shown to be confused by these things. Later on in the story, she learns of humanity's history of violence and conflict, and their consumption of meat (the latter she found out about by having eaten a Big Mac), and while horrified, she still admires their history of innovation. Lyra's human friend Audrey is shocked to learn that Lyra has been on her own since she was 12, while she is still a minor at 16, and is shocked by some of her habits like eating plants. Most of her human friends are pretty nonchalant about human conflict. This trope abounds as Lyra struggles to adapt to the human world.

This is at the core of Jus Primae Noctis. Saito goes into culture shock a few times at what Halgenkians consider acceptable or unacceptable behavior, and the title speaks for itself.

"Aen'rhien Vailiuri": Morgan t'Thavrau is Romulan, not human, and doesn't see anything wrong with killing an unarmed Kazon prisoner in anger. Legally she was within her rights (the Federation is apparently about the only major star nation that doesn't execute people for piracy), and the Kazon had just impugned her right to command the ship. Her human operations officer Jaleh Khoroushi disagrees. Vehemently. (So does the author, citing the trope in the author's notes.)

The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Castlevaniacrossover fanfic, Equestrylvania, uses this to highlight the differences in attitudes between Aeon's human allies, since they have been gathered from multiple periods through the timestream. Given that she hails from the 1930s, Charlotte Aulin sees no problem with using terms like "Negro tribes" or "colored people" with complete sincerity when referring to what she has been told of Equestria's zebras. Soma, who hails from the 2000s, isn't sure what unnerves him more; the fact she actually uses words he regards as highly racially insensitive, or the complete innocence with which she does so.

In Ishvalan culture, no one uses someone's name without their permission and its considered a sign of friendliness or intimacy to be given someone's name. A batsheva, a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter is special in that everyone is allowed to call her by name, something she doesn't appreciate as it makes her like she doesn't belong to herself alone.

Trisha considers Hohenheim to be nameless considering the circumstance he got his name.

No one bats an eye when Edward fights a bear for spectacle and to feed his guests.

In the Last Train side story for The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum, British-born Tess Jones is shown to be uncomfortable with the idea of handling guns compared to her American and Canadian companions despite the Conversion War having gone on for three very long and trying years by this point.

Blood and Honor: Neither Sanguis nor Quinn have a problem with slavery, as it's both legal and common in the Empire. Quinn is also very anti-alien and consistently treats Vette as less than a person.

In The Battle for Narn the Centauri just don't get many parts of Human culture. Tellingly is ambassador Zainus Callo's opinion on human anti-slavery beliefs: he's convinced it's the result of human slavers acting stupid and causing an excessive reaction, and brings the events of the Amistad as example (in this case, the violation of the slave trade ban and US slavers trying to have the Mende treated as slaves anyway).

A Zabini auditor thinks perfectly normal and justified to burn a rapist alive while Squalo — who is a professional assassin for the Mafia — calls him a vigilante for taking the law in his own hands.

The Mafia is very strict about your sexual partner's age: if they are under sixteen, they're off-limits, and if you ignore this, you're asking for a bullet in your brain. In the Wizarding society, a witch is eligible for marriage after passing the appropriate exams, meaning that a barely fifteen-years-old Dorea Black deciding to wed wasn't considered as particularly noteworthy. Her husband is however horrified when he learned how young she was when they consummated.

Atlas Shrugged: The Cobra Commander Dialogues has the morality of the 80s Saturday Morning villain Cobra Commander clash with the views of characters in the titual novel. Cobra Commander comes off as a lot more sane and intelligent.

Paul gets on the bad side of Lori Lemaris when he comments on the possibility of reversing the graphs of Atlantians to make them into Purebloods or baseline Humans.

In turn Lori clashes with Sephtian. Due to being a fish-graph Atlantian, she sees the mentioned comment as racism. Sephtian being part-of the genetically inbred and slowly dying Manta-graph Atlantian sees the possibility of changing or reversing his graph as a positive thing as his group suffers from many genetic diseases and are incapable of reproducing with anyone outside their group.

Teth Adom has to wrap his head around the ban of pork in the Islamic Kahndaq and how crippling horrible villains would be considered excessive force.

What was the act that proved to the wizard Shazam that Teth Adom was abusing his gifts to bring more power to himself and crossed the line? He was attempting to form the ancient equivalent of the Justice League! Teth Adom is extremely bitter about it as Captain Marvel's participation of the Justice League proves that he had the right idea. He notes that he and his contemporaries could have brought an age of Enlightenment and peace that no one had seen before, if it wasn't for the wizard's betrayaland his refusal to listen to Adom.

Kaldur, Garth and Tula are extremely offended when Kaldur's Earth -14 counterpart Lamprey addresses Aquaman as Arthur Curry instead of his Atlantian name. In Atlantis, people opposed to Aquaman's rule would call him by his land name to imply that he's not Atlantian.

There are a few brief scenes in Cars: Downunder that have Mater and McQueen being confused by the different ways of life in Australia (such as people driving on the left side of the road).

In Dazzling Sun, Aria reveals that in the 1930s, she fell in love with an up and coming actress named Gazing Star. When their relationship was outed by somebody who saw them kissing in the park, the actress' career was destroyed due to the time period's view on homosexuality, and she eventually took her own life. Thankfully, Sunset reveals to Aria that the actress was Vindicated by History as a martyr of sexual discrimination, and that her movies are now Cult Classics for several LBGTQA+ civil rights groups.

Eastern regions like Kanto tend to have more rigid divides between Pokemon and humans, compared to Alola and even other regions in the east. Kukui repeatedly notes how much Ash defies the Kanto stereotype by being extremely close to his Pokemon. When the issue of Pikachu's Pokeball comes up, Ash notes that he usually has to explain it early on, but the Alolans don't notice anything odd about it.

In addition battle styles are noted to differ greatly between regions, with the more direct Hoenn vs the more combo preferring Sinnoh vs the blunt Kanto as an example.

In Alola Lillie, Kiawe and the other students of Professor Kukui's class are still minors while Ash, who's the same age as them, has been a legal adult for years in Kanto. Professor Kukui has to wrap his mind around that Ash, who is a child by his standards, doesn't need parental permission, signs his own legal documents and is used to simply leaving if he dislikes a situation.

Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell: Due to her cultural background (Bajoran) and the fact that she herself was nearly enslaved by Orions as a nineteen-year-old, Eleya's view of the conflict between the Moab Confederacy and the Orions comes off a little skewed by Federation norms. She evinces some approval of various acts committed by Moabite anti-slavery raiders that would normally be considered war crimes (torture, summary executions, taking ears as trophies and leaving playing cards as calling cards). It's also noted that the Bajorans had to abolish the death penalty and stop hanging Cardassian collaborators to join the Federation. Using underage soldiers, however, proves a bridge too far.

Xander learns in Love you to the Moon and Back that Safira was fully aware of Robin Wood sleeping around with younger Slayers despite dating Faith and never mentioned it because she's from a part of Africa where a girl is considered an adult once she gets her first period and poly relationships are fairly common.

In The Alphabet Story, Anna admits that she doesn't think Elsa's attraction towards women is natural, but she'll support her sister anyway long as it makes her happy.

It's mentioned that Rin from the Sonic the Hedgehog fic series Echoes Of Eternity was bullied for being the equivalent of Japanese-American, having a Japanese name, and having bentos for lunch. This isn't that unreasonable for someone who a child in 1930s or 1940s.

This is essentially the point of Man Of Dreams. In this story, the majority of people in the Naruto-verse cannot conceive of homosexuality, which is a major source of Gayngst for the main character. It's also shown in their attitudes towards women, particularly the surprise Mito always gets at her Action Girl tendencies.

In short, nobody had ever heard of such a concept as homosexuality. Nobody had stopped and considered that perhaps there were people who exclusively fell in love with people of the same sexanother phrase that didnt exist, same sex. Same sex and opposite sex, who thought like that? You had men and you had women, and men loved women and women loved men, and the sky was blue and the sun was bright and water was wet. There were no alternatives, the world didnt work that way.

Bad Influence has 1980s-typical behavior towards homosexuality and bisexuality. Jerrica and Aja are fine with Kimber and Stormer's relationship but clearly aren't comfortable with it. They also view it as a sign of Kimber being "homosexual", without any consideration that she could be bisexual.

Taking place in late 1989, Our Time Is Now has this dissonance towards queer people. Despite her accepting nature, Jerrica feels awkward upon noticing that Danse and Video are in a lesbian relationship. In the follow-up fic, Danse's mother (who grew up in eastern Europe) disowns her daughter for being lesbian.. Danse deals with a of gayngst before fully coming to terms with her sexuality.

A great deal of interpersonal conflict arises in The Golden Rule over Asgards more brutal society that in their minds, Humans Are Insects. The various human characters are shocked to learn that the violence prone Thor is actually rather soft by Asgardian standards.

Subverted in Stand Ins and Stunt Doubles when the the Avengers use marijuana to calm down the Hulk and Iron-Man mentions his surprise that Captain America isn't protesting on moral grounds. Cap replies that while he's not that into it, he's still enjoyed weed a few times.

The Prayer Warriors have a set of values (it's acceptable to kill people who don't share your religion, who are homosexuals, or who are rape victims that didn't cry out loudly enough) that is quite different from many people, including their fellow Christians, to say the least. This trope is actually acknowledged in-story when Grover sees Benry dealing drugs to Rika and Books, and acknowledges that dealing drugs is (according to him) legal in Soviet Russia, but as it is illegal under US law, he has to kill Benry to enforce US law.

Justice League of Equestria: In Princess of Themyscira, Amazons actually wear clothes, unlike most ponies, and Diana is as disturbed at the possibility of Soarin' seeing her naked as most people in the real world would be. She also brings up this trope when taking her vow to uphold the laws of mortals when in their realm, bringing up how she might run into laws and customs that she feels are unjust.

In Boys und Sensha-do!, this trope comes into play to an extent. Akio is more Americanized than the mainly Japanese cast, and has a tendency to speak his mind more easily. As such, when Miho's mother visits her in the hospital to disown her (something that he points out is almost unheard of in America, particularly not in his family), he lays into her with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.

A cycle of tales in the extended Discworld universe takes the hints in canon that there is such a thing as a Discworld "South Africa" to go alongside its "Australia" and "New Zealand", and takes all the accepted stereotypes of South African-ness way Up to Eleven. A.A. Pessimal accepts and stresses that The Apartheid Era is way in the past for modern South Africa - on this planet - but incorporates it into his version as a going concern. This is part of the package of Up to Eleven stereotypes used in, er, "Rimwards Howondaland" alongside biltong, stroppy pugnacious people speaking "Afrikaans", safaris, the veldt, cross-eyed lions, and other little quirks seen in our representations of the land and its people. Most South African readers are accepting of this and get that this is used to highlight the absurdity of a crazy social system that must have a Discworld correspondence, especially when seen through the eyes of an emigrant trying to shake off her cultural conditioning and restructure her thought patterns when she arrives in Ankh-Morpork (and how do you apply apartheid in a multi-species world where skin color can be... well, it ceases to be just a black-and-white thing). There have been some interesting discussions in private correspondence, though, with Saffies who are indignant about their portrayal as bluff, thick, insensitive and loud. An "Israeli" character has been introduced in another tale. Reaction has been appreciative, although the author stresses he wants to explore the positive things about Israeli people through her, and how Israeli/"Jewish" vibes might fit on the Disc, and definitely to avoid the currently contentious issues. A single reference to recent contentious events in Gaza - in a footnote - drew flak from Israeli and pro-Israeli readers of Pessimal's work, proving the value of the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.

A number of people in Enough Rope ponder this idea in regards to Steve Rogers. The man might have been fairly progressive back during World War II, but over seventy years later, those same ideas of his range from outdated to condescending to outright racist.

Possible example in The Longest Road in the original version of Chapter 28. The story takes place during the late nineties, and the Pokémon League apparently enforces a rule against LGBT people being trainers, which Ash uses to get Erika kicked out from her position as a Gym Leader when he outs her as a lesbian. The chapter was rewritten due to the resulting backlash, removing this element.

A fantasy example pops up in The Unlikely Confidant. After being abducted by Blue Diamond, Greg interacts with the Homeworld Gems. His individualist mindset and willingness to help hired help contrasts sharply with the Fantastic Caste System of Homeworld, where Gems are given and assigned specific roles. While confused at first, Blue Diamond finds she likes Greg's mindset.

Film  Animation

Mulan is just full of sexist songs like "A Girl Worth Fighting For" and "Honour to Us All", which fit in with how casually patriarchal ancient China was. They also include some odd ancient Chinese fetishes, like when one of the men mentions he wants a girl "paler than the moon." Also, when they're not going on about what women should be like, they're going on about how important it is to "Be a man!" in the "I'll Make a Man Out of You" song.

Played up with the moral ambiguity of the plagues. In Biblical times, God killing the firstborn sons of your enemies was clearly a good thing. With a more modern eye and attention to characterization, it becomes a gut-wrenching event for both Moses and Ramses.

The film makes Moses's adopted father go from being a stern but loving dad to being pretty creepy just by reminding us how he (and most of the Egyptians) saw the Israelites: "Oh my son, they were only slaves." This follows into Ramses's opinion on the Israelites, who views them the same way as every other member of his family.

Several facts from the religious texts the story originated from were changed/omitted for the movie to make the protagonists more sympathetic to a modern audience (e.g. in the movie, Moses killing a slave master is accidental, according to the religious texts Moses did it deliberately).

In the prequel Joseph: King of Dreams, Joseph knowing how to read and write is clearly shown as being an unusual but incredibly helpful skill he has. The movie also shows in pretty disturbing detail Joseph's being sold into slavery, with him at one point seeing how scarred the back of another slave is from being whipped.

Hinted at in The Princess and the Frog. While a lot of Tiana's hardships come from her being poor, there are a good many implications that she also has to fight against prejudice for being black and female. One of the most noticeable is when the owners of a mill Tiana wants to buy casually dismiss her upset over being outbid, telling her "A woman of your... background, you're better off staying where you're at." While the exact meaning of the sentence is ambiguous enough that it could be interpreted a few ways, her reaction would tell anyone who knows about black rights at that time period what they were implying.

In Aladdin, Princess Jasmine sneaks out and inadvertently gives away a fruit to a beggar child. Lacking money, the vendor would have chopped off her hand for stealing if Aladdin hadn't have rescued her. This was Truth in Television for many societies of that era (and still is practiced in some modern countries).

The trope is averted, however, in that the Sultan granting his daughter the right to decide who she marries as long as he's of socially appropriate rank (later changed to anyone she chooses, with no other conditions), rather than arranging the best politically beneficial marriage for his daughter, would be considered shockingly radical.

In addition to the bullfighting example in The Book of Life, there's also the subtle disdain that some have about Maria's interest in books and her "unwomanly" attitudes.

Many of the Disney Princess characters are teenagers (with Snow White being the youngest at fourteen). During the times the stories were set, it was more acceptable to marry young. Most post-2000s princesses are at least eighteen if they are married.

The first movie has sympathetic characters blatantly say they're travelling to America to take all the resources, and they'll kill any Native Americans that try to stop them. They freely call the Natives "savages", which Pocahontas is understandably furious about when she first hears John say it.

The second has Ratcliffe exploiting this, inviting Pocahontas to a ball at the court where a bear-baiting is to happen. Considered appropriate public entertainment to the English, Pocahontas is horrified and calls everyone "barbarians" - getting locked in the Tower of London for it.

In Loving Vincent, one woman in Auvers expresses disgust for the fact that Vincent van Gogh killed himself on a Sunday. Until recently, suicide was considered an act of cowardice and a mortal sin, so him doing it on the Lord's Day made it even worse in her eyes.

Film  Live-Action

In the 2012 movie version of 21 Jump Street, undercover cop Jenko finds out the hard way that, in the age of Glee, environmentalism and the more pro-tolerance atmosphere of the Obama administration, his rather politically-incorrect alpha-male jock routine puts him a lot lower on the high school Popularity Food Chain than it did at The '90s and Turn of the Millennium (he graduated in 2005). Instead, it's Schmidt, the idealistic former high school nerd, whose personality and lifestyle are more in line with what's considered cool in The New '10s.

Airplane!, being based on a 1950s-era film, plays a lot with how social conventions had changed by the late 1970s: Everybody in the plane wears formal attire (while the people in the airport wear more casual clothing). Also, all the reporters wear fedoras and use bulky press cameras (displaced in the 60s by regular cameras). And Randy, the stewardess, bemoans the fact she is 26 and has not married yet.

The townspeople in Federico Fellini's Amarcord are a barely literate, comically inept, short-tempered, base lot with few redeeming features between them. About half-way through the movie, the mayor of the town proudly declares every citizen a committed Fascist.

In the first film, Marty realizes that the black busboy he is talking to in 1955 is the mayor in 1985. When he says this, the café owner scoffs "A colored mayor! That'll be the day!"

Back to the Future Part III gets in on it as well, with the racist drunkards in the bar mocking Marty's clothes, asking if he got them off a "dead Chinese". And, of course, Buford Tannen's self-proclaimed murder tally not counting Indians and Chinamen.

Borat runs off this trope. Sacha Baron Cohen plays a racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic stranger who travels the United States to learn about its culture. In one scene, Borat is flabbergasted to learn that in the US, women have the right to say no to a man's advances.

Byzantium: The Brethren's entire attitude towards women not being allowed to join their ranks, regardless of their merit. Clara's denied entry just over two centuries ago, which in of itself was hardly a time for enlightened views on women in general. But then you realize the Brethen are strongly implied to be much, much older than that and time clearly hasn't shaken the trappings of countless centuries of sexism by the time Clara wants to join. The fact her low birth is also a strike against her falls squarely into this trope too.

A minor case in Captain America: The Winter Soldier: When Sam Wilson remarks that he must long for the good old days, Cap notes they had to boil all their food, polio was still rampant and there was no Internet, all problems the modern day world doesn't have to deal with. Nick Fury also remarks on the rampant racism his grandfather's generation experienced back in the day.

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of Americaruns on this, being a Mockumentary of US History in a world where the Confederacy won the Civil War, and slavery is practiced into the 1990s. In a clever twist, all but one of the rather racist commercials reflect real products and businesses.

Hazing incoming freshmen on the last day of school was frowned upon in 1993 (as it still is today), and the movie seems to toy with the audience's modern day sensibilities whenever it's depicted. But in the film's 1976 setting, it's seen by the characters as just another traditional rite of passage.

Nutritional attitudes are also not quite where they are now:

...and remember to get plenty of calcium. It's important for pregnant women to get plenty of calcium. (Liquor store clerk, to pregnant customer buying booze and smokes.)

He later tells her, "See you again tomorrow."

In Django Unchained, this is pretty frequent. For example, Calvin Candie pulls out the old Phrenology justification for why whites are superior.

The 1987 Dragnet film contrasts the Detective Friday character, who is a throwback to The '50s, with his more modern new partner played by Tom Hanks.

The Duchess shows just what kind of horrors awaited a Spirited Young Lady ahead of her time. Georgiana's husband can freely take her children away at any time, because as a man he has the law on his side. Despite both parties having affairs, the Duke's is seen as justified because he's a man.

In Eve's Bayou, set in the 1960s, both Mozelle and Mattie cheat on their husbands, and in both cases, when the husbands found out, they were more angry with the men their wives slept with than the cheating wives themselves. Compare Roz's fury towards Louis when she can no longer deny that he sleeps around. This is based on the notion that All Women Are Lustful and men are supposed to have better control over themselves and respect another man's "territory."

After the main character of Hacksaw Ridge goes on his first date with his future wife, he kisses her without consent. While it does show that even she found it creepy and disturbing, his actions show how differently they treated things like this back in the 1940s.

Help!: It may seem disconcerting to see The Beatles (especially Lennon, although it's very obvious from his facial expression and tone of voice that he is mocking such attitudes) referring to "filthy Eastern ways" regarding their cultist pursuers, but all the deliberately stilted dialog in the movie is meant to invoke old movie and adventure novel cliches.

Ip Man doesn't shy from depicting Japanese brutality towards Chinese or Western racism.

In Lincoln the villains of the movie are the racist congressmen who oppose the 13th amendment. But even the moderate politicians hold views that are pretty sexist and racist by our standards. George Yeaman opposes the amendment because he fears it would mean giving votes to blacks and, god forbid, women. He does change his mind in a big way, though. Thaddeus Stevens has to hide his belief in racial equality so this fear doesn't kill the Amendment.

In The Lone Ranger the treatment of American Indian peoples, including calling them savages, reflects the time period.

Love and Honor is ripe with this, but the kicker is when the (truly lovable) hero throws his (also very sweet) wife out the house for being raped. She comments in all earnestness: "At least he was kind enough not to cut off my head." Though later they reconcile, he never apologizes for it.

The ship's first officer asking permission to bring live Galapagos tortoises on board as food stock. Of course, lots of people still eat tortoises and turtles, but no one in modern times thinks of Galapagos tortoises as food courses.

Also, prepubescent boys acting as officers, commanding men at least thrice their age by the simple benefit of coming from the upper class.

mid90s focuses on the much more realistic 90's rather than the idealized version that is frequently portrayed in popular culture, and as a result, this happens quite a bit.

Stevie having an abusive older brother, and it really not being dealt with by the mother was very much how sibling abuse was like back in the 90's.

All of the main teenagers use homophobic, misogynistic, and racist language. While the racist language is used under the excuse of N-Word Privileges, the homophobia and misygonistic comments are portrayed as acceptable, instead of awful, which is what it was during the decade.

Stevie has a sexual encounter at a party with a girl much older than him. Stevie is 13, but everyone treats it as a great accomplishment. One night stands between people who had age differences between them, even if that person could not legally consent, were very common at parties in the 90's.

One of the teens faces absolutely no punishment, aside from what is implied to be a guilty conscience for driving drunk and high and nearly getting Stevie killed. This is very much how drunk driving was treated during the decade, as a minor crime, even if people died in a crash.

Seen a lot in Monsieur Vincent, in which a cleric in 17th century France becomes a crusader dedicated to helping the poor, which involves getting the pampered Idle Rich nobility to overcome their class prejudices and fork over money. Most prominent in the scene where the Ladies of Charity tell Vincent that he is asking for too much and they can't do any more. Vincent, who has had enough of their carping and criticism, puts the Doorstop Baby he just rescued on the table, and demands to know what they'll do about it. It turns out that the rich ladies will do nothing, as they are sickened and disgusted by the baby, regarding it as a product of sin, suggesting that the baby should die for that reason. Even the nuns have the same attitude, refusing to look Vincent in the face. An angry Vincent snarls that when God wanted someone to die for human sin, he sent his Son.

In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Anamaria's gender makes Gibbs wary of bringing her on the ship because of the belief that women bring bad luck, but eventually relents. It's historically accurate that sailors were wary of having women on board, and there were a few notable female pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy, including Anne Bonny and Mary Read. The fact that no one even considers it worth mentioning that she's black is also accurate, since pirates loved stealing slave vessels (they had a lot of room), but had no interest in the slaves on them. They would either release the slaves or give them a chance to join the crew.

The Sandlot features a scene where Ham and the leader of their rival team begin Volleying Insults that ends with Ham saying "You play ball like a GIRL!". Everyone treats this as the worst thing you can say to a guy. Of course, this is because the film takes place in 1962 before feminism and Title IX took off and most girls began participating in sports.

The Shape of Water has a character who is a closeted gay man, frequently visiting a pie shop because he has a crush on the owner. He tries making a pass at him. Cue him being ordered out of the shop because it's "a family place", while two black people are also denied service just because.

The Shop on Main Street is a Slovak film set in 1942, dealing with the deportation of the Jews from Slovakia (to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps). Except for one person who is connected to the Slovak resistance, none of the Christians in the town have any problem with the Jews being stripped of their property and sent away. The protagonist's wife is overjoyed when she finds out that he will be receiving a confiscated Jewish shop.

Played for Laughs in The Sisters Brothers, where its 1851 and stuff like toothbrushes or flushing toilets are treated as dazzling new innovations that only high-minded wealthy folks use.

Space Cop: Ted Cooper is from the 1940s and unfrozen in the present day, so he often blithely expresses anachronistic values, saying things like, "Say, 'Ohn,' that's a chink name, isn't it?" and "I know women who are smarter than you!"

On the surface, Starship Troopers is a simple sci-fi action movie about Space Marines fighting giant alien bugs, however, it's pretty clear from the early scenes that The Federation is an aggressive, militaristic fascist society. None of the "heroes" think there is anything wrong with the way things are, are all enthusiastic soldiers of the regime and happily consume/star in bombastic state propaganda.

The best example of the film's intentional Moral Dissonance is the last scene after the heroes capture the Brain Bug, when Neil Patrick Harris' character (wearing a hat and greatcoat ensemble not seen on a military officer since 1945) uses his telepathy to read its mind and exclaims "It's afraid!" In another sci-fi film, this would be a Wham Line and a basis for understanding and sympathy between the two species; what happens instead is every trooper present cheers in exaltation, at having such power over a defeated enemy.

Timeline, despite its poor reception, has one of the most accurate depictions of medieval values in modern fiction.

It's rather well summed up in the scene where the main party is escaping and the Scotsman standing a few feet from the guard, with an arrow pointed at his chest says something to the effect of "Stay quiet if you value your life." The guard picks up his sword and yells "Traitors!" running at him. Before promptly being shot in the chest.

Lord de Vannes's casual murder of François after forcing him to say "I am a spy" is seen as nothing more than a mild diversion for the English. After all, they're at war with the French, so anything is allowed, right?

True Grit is a western that takes place in the 1880s. The 2010 remake use a lot of this trope.

Rooster waxing nostalgic about the American buffalo — which he helped hunt into near extinction.

Rooster: Damn shame. I would give three dollars right now for a pickled buffalo tongue.

Mattie is a fourteen-year-old girl and LaBoeuf is a grown man. LaBoeuf explicitly shows attraction to Mattie, though she's uncomfortable with it.

Played with when Rooster frees and chases off a mule that two American Indian children were goading outside a trading post, then proceeds to repeatedly and literally kick them off of the porch to the ground. This has presumably more to do with their treatment of the mule than with their ethnic background, however.

Us briefly invokes this. The Santa Cruz boardwalk in 1986 has a funhouse with a tacky Native American theme, while in the present the building stays exactly the same inside and out, but the native shaman above the door has been replaced with a much less controversial Merlin.

Cult Classic horror film The Wicker Man (1973) relies heavily on this, first for humor, as the protagonist's staunch Christianity means he is horrified and baffled by the staunch Paganism of the village inhabitants and what this leads them to do — who are equally horrified and baffled by his religious beliefs and behaviors — and then for horror, when the Paganistic beliefs incite the villages to capture the protagonist and burn him to death in a wicker man as a Human Sacrifice so that their crops will grow.

There is also a scene where Erik Lehnsherr casually tells Charles to slap Emma Frost if she refuses to answer his questions.

Mississippi Burning illustrates the Ku Klux Klan-dominated atmosphere of the namesake state in 1964, with the antagonists frequently making use of racial slurs and cross-burnings.

Wonder Woman (2017): Downplayed, but it still comes up since it's set in WWI. Diana gets pretty quickly kicked out of a military summit in London for being a woman, and is treated condescendingly by Steve Trevor's superiors. Etta Candy offhandedly mentions the fact that women haven't been given the right to vote in the United Kingdom. Sameer was denied the chance to become an actor because of his skin color, and Chief mentions how his people, the Native Americans, were treated badly by white Americans shortly prior to the start of World War I.

In future Hawaii, Zachry has a child at a very young age with a girl he barely knows. This doesn't seem to be considered abnormal, probably because life expectancies are so short.

Music

Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army makes mention of "one more widow, one less white nigger", referring to occupying soldiers in Northern Ireland shooting at Catholic nationalists during The Troubles.

A controversial example comes in the form of Dire Straits's "Money For Nothing" which had a verse that repeatedly used the word "faggot". This caused a bit of an uproar in 1985 and led the band to be accused of homophobia. And while the radio version replaced it with "queenie" (which while still homophobic, didn't have as harsh connotations) band itself cleared up that they did not endorse homophobia, they used the word to show just how much of a Jerkass the narrator of the song was (already having hinted to have conservative views such as viewing the music industry as not real jobs hence the song's title). That didn't stop the song from being de facto banned from Canadian radio in 2011 after a single listener complained over the uncensored version being played; however the fact the band did make an alternate version available was one of the factors that led to the song being allowed back on Canadian radio after about nine months (though the original version is still the more common).

Randy Newman does this quite often, as his songs are usually first-person narratives, but he often chooses a narrator who has the very opinions that he is criticizing. Of special mention are "Sail Away", sang from the POV of a slaver convincing Africans to board his ship to America, and "Christmas in Cape Town", a song about Apartheid sang by a white racist.

X 's Los Angeles has the unnamed lead character want to leave Los Angeles, and one reason is she hates 'every nigger and jew, every homosexual & the idle rich'. The context is that she is having a midlife crisis ('her toys wore out and her boys have too'), and is blaming others for her own problems, which has led her to believe she can escape them by moving to a rural area. This is Truth in Television and refers to something known as White Flight. The use of the epithets succeeded in attracting controversy for the song, though makes more sense in the context that a lot of their songs were based on overheard conversations, as opposed to being the group's opinion.

It's especially noticeable in the "Jefferson Reid, Ace American" and "Amelia Earhart, Fearless Flyer" settings. They take place during World War II and are framed as Propaganda Pieces of valiant American heroes fighting the "dirty krauts."

In "Desdemona Hughes, Diva Detective", the title character was a star of the silent movie era whose fame faded with the rise of "talkies" and has the sensibilities of that period. For instance, she has no problem making jokes about Blackface. "Desdomona" also plays it differently, as one episode features a man whose being outed as gay actually benefited his career, when something like that happening in the real 1940s would almost certainly have had a much different reaction.

One of the "sponsors" of the Thrilling Adventure Hour is Patriot Brand Cigarettes. The live shows feature actual advertisements of them between segments. Some of those segments, such as "Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars", are portrayed as radio plays intended for a child audience.

The older sensibilities of the various settings is also the main reason Frank and Sadie Doyle's constant drinking can be Played for Laughs.

In Soylent Scrooge, many of Victorian London's less-progressive values are seen and played for laughs.

Print Media

The Twisted Toyfare Theatre strip featuring the thawed out Silver Age Spider-Man took this trope to town, highlighting the fact that Silver Age Spidey's values and priorities are incredibly screwed up. As the normal Spider-Man says, "He guns downs bank robbers and punches dictators!" Also, the first thing he says after being unfrozen is "What the-?! There used to be a foreigner at the end of this fist."

A story in the National Lampoon ca. 1972 had a 30-ish guy waking up in his early 1950s childhood. He goes with it, figuring his adult knowledge will make schoolwork a breeze...then he blurts out that President Truman had kicked General MacArthur out of Korea, forgetting it hadn't happened yet. His teacher is horrified, but he continues his train of thought, going into a Vietnam-era rant about the futility of trying to police the world. The story's tagline was "If you knew then what you know now, boy, would you be in trouble..."

Puppet Shows

In the puppet show 31 Minutos a secondary character is Tio Horacio, the animator of a children's program of the 70s, which among other things in his program said that children who were left-handed were abnormal and that they had to force them to use the right hand, even attaching the left hand to the back.

Radio

Old Harry's Game plays with this sometimes, especially with historically "good" or "heroic" characters, almost all of whom are in hell for one reason or another. For example, Thomas Jefferson in his first appearance relates a funny anecdote about writing the Declaration of Independence, halfway through the line "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" his ink ran out, and he sent his slave to get more, seeing no contradiction in this. It's also implied that Jack the Ripper was Queen Victoria's nephew, and she ordered the Prime Minister to let him rampage freely, and shielded him from justice, only concerned with the shame the scandal would bring on the Royal Family, not the deaths of her subjects. It's all completely Played for Laughs, of course.

Played for Laughs with Sir Phillip Bin, who despite a lifetime's worth of bizarre (or flat-out impossible) experiences, is incredibly sexist, and thinks universal education is a strange and implausible suggestion.

In one episode, Ripely acts exactly like an upper-class Victorian woman would act towards the homeless, accusing them of being lazy, yelling at them that pull themselves together, and confiscating what little items they have in case it "undermines their self-respect."

Roleplay

Survival of the Fittest spin-off The Program is based entirely on this trope. It's set in a militaristic, extreme nationalist version of AmericaTwenty Minutes In The Future. So, there's a fair amount of this. Most notably, as a result of their nationalist upbringings, many characters are to some extent xenophobic and treat "foreign" looking people not too kindly, which is most prominently seen with Japanese-American Marilyn Williams and Angry Black Man Bryant Carver.

Tabletop Games

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay does not shy from adding real-life medieval sexism (if a somewhat watered-down version) to its sourcebook depicting the Medieval Stasis nation Bretonnia; women are second-class citizens without the ability to own property or manage their own affairs, and if female characters want to be adventurers they'll have to pretend to be men. The opening chapter lampshades this, stating that if you find it offensive you are at full liberty to not include it in your game and that "This is not a feature of Bretonnian society of which the author and Games Workshop approves" and furthermore that "The author and Black Library also does not approve of the arbitrary execution of peasants, fighting local wars over an insult, or worshiping the Ruinous Powers, all activities depicted herein. Just so we're clear."

Some of the Warhammer novels imply that homosexuality is regarded as an act of worshipping Slaanesh and thus punishable by burning at the stake.

People with mental disorders are treated with revulsion and suspicion. If their condition invokes humour or pity then they are sometimes tolerated, but if not they are quickly driven away. Many people treat insanity as contagious and Witch Hunters will often put them to the flame or sword - which is ironic as many of them suffer paranoid delusions so severe that if they lived in our world then they would be institutionalized.

Warhammer 40,000 does this quite deliberately to help convey that it's a Crapsack Galaxy. Slavery, racism, murderous xenophobia, the glorification of ignorance and mindless zeal, religious fundamentalism — and that's just the humans! Appropriately this applies even to the more heroic characters, with Ciaphas Cain (one of the most noble and just characters in the setting, even if he doesn't realise it) viewing "mutants" and anyone who disagrees with Imperial rule with the same scorn any loyal Imperial soldier would. Ironically by our standards, the Imperium seems to be racially and sexually equal, with the scorn applying only to Fantastic Racism. The only exceptions would be organizations in the Imperium that are explicitly patriarchal and matriarchal. The Imperium is also very culturally and religiously diverse, with few if any cultural standards enforced beyond "Don't muck about with aliens (unless you are a Rogue Trader) or Chaos, venerate the Emperor (in some way, no-one really cares how), pay tithes on time and in full, and don't get in the way of Imperial authorities when/if they roll onto your homeworld." Slavery is legal, as long as it's between humans. Humans being owned by aliens is a horrible, unforgivable sin, and the Imperium has mobilized entire army groups to punish alien civilizations for using human labor (or livestock).

Victoriana RPG makes the Values Dissonance between the setting and the players the defining characteristic of the player-characters. Reasoning that some players would be uncomfortable playing accurate Victorian values unironically, the game encourages them to create characters whose beliefs are more in line with their own sensibilities, and hence profoundly revolutionary by 19th-Century standards.

In Hackmaster, there is a system of Honor points, generally gained for heroic actions and lost for cowardly or heinous ones, which gives in-game benefits to characters who consistently act honorably. However, different character classes and alignments gain and lose honor for different things, so a Lawful Good shining knight type would gain honor for charity, defeating great foes in honest combat, and standing to fight even against overwhelming odds, while a Chaotic Neutral thief would gain points for successful robbery and fleeing from the aforementioned overwhelming opponent in order to poison or backstab them at a later date, and a Lawful Evil monster would be rewarded for taking slaves or torturing useful information out of someone. And in the module Little Keep on the Borderlands, non-humans would suffer discrimination while staying at the keep, especially races like half-orcs.

Exalted likes to play with this trope a lot in general, using Creation's fictional societies as thought experiments or deliberate juxtapositions to our own society. Specific examples:

The 1e sourcebook "Manacle and Coin" includes both an exhaustive listing of races generally considered "slave races" and a sidebar from the authors about how utterly WRONG such attitudes are.

The Scarlet Dynasty, which rules the Realm, has a eugenics program built around increasing the likelihood of Dragon-Blooded Exaltation. Justified since the Realm's Dragon-Blooded are the only Realm citizens capable of naturally wielding Essence, and thus are regarded as the Realm's most valuable resource.

The Delzahn have an odd attitude when it comes to sexuality and gender. On the one hand, anyone can "take the grey" and declare themselves "dereth," effectively becoming the opposite sex, starting at the time of their Rite of Passage. On the other hand, they have extremely strict gender norms, with no allowance for homosexuality or "abnormal" behavior. So if you're a gay man and want to be in a relationship with another man, either you or your partner must become dereth. If you're a woman and you want to fight or hunt for a living, or are a man and want to paint, you have to become dereth. And so on.

Lookshy is probably the closest that Creation has to a real-life liberal democracy, with an enforced ban on slavery, a degree of social mobility and some notion of natural human rights. It's still a military-run police state with Dragon-Blooded at the top, and readily engages in economic imperialism (as well as regular, military-backed imperialism).

On the flip side of the coin, many players may be offended when learning about Shourido, the dark "alternative" to Bushido that is advocated by agents of the Shadowlands. It's absolutely portrayed as an evil philosophy, but includes such "evil" ideas as learning for the sake of learning,seeking to become stronger and being a perfectionist. (In this case, mind, part of the point of Shourido is that it looks innocent on the surface, but inevitably draws its practitioners towards nasty extremes.)

Aside philosophical issues, the setting's strict caste system is no doubt an example of this trope. Peasants are considered "half-people" and Eta (untouchables who handle "dirty work" like waste management) aren't considered people at all. Caste is determined by birth, and aside from being reincarnated into a higher caste in another life, there are very few ways to change caste. While some of the clans in the game are Nice to the Waiter and endeavor to treat peasants with some dignity, they are, even by these people considered lesser. All this is, of course, profoundly uncomfortable to a western (particularly American) audience, where equality, or at least merit based social positioning is considered the norm.

Well Rocket Age is set in 1938. Factor in alien cultures and things get real awkward real fast.

The The World of Darkness enforces values dissonance mechanically. Humans have a "humanity" rating with a hierarchy of sins forming a ten-point scale (e.g. 10 is thinking an unkind thought about someone who harms you, zero is committing genocide for entertainment, simple murder falls around 4 or so) with sins below your current rating potentially dropping the rating. The Humanity scale, used by humans, Prometheans and most vampires, is intended to encompass standard modern first-world morality, but other supernatural creatures get entirely different lists of sins:

Vampires can, under some circumstances, choose to reject mortal moral standards, and instead embrace a Path of Enlightenment. A Path is something which must be deliberately sought out, and embracing one is a long, painful and soul-shattering process. These Paths are exactly as alien as one would expect and while they may overlap with mortal morality they do so for vastly different reasons. A follower of the Path of Lilith, which espouses pain as the path to wisdom, would consider killing a human as immoral as a follower of Humanity would, but for the reason that dead humans can't feel pain, and would consider torturing a human to be laudable, since the pain so inflicted would bring the human closer to enlightenment. A follower of the Path of Caine would consider killing a human while feeding repugnant to the same level as a human would, say, nerve-gassing an orphanage, because such lack of self-control is anathema to those who seek to master the vampiric condition. Killing humans in other circumstances isn't even on the hierarchy, because humans are cattle and not worthy targets of vampiric moral consideration.

Mages get wisdom, which includes the standard scale but adds in things related to your tendency to use your magic as a first resort. Minor sins include using magic to 'shortcut' daily tasks, major ones include intentionally invoking magical backlash.

Werewolves have essentially the same sins, but in an entirely different order. Simple rudeness can be an extremely severe sin if you're disrespecting a packmate or elder, theft isn't a sin at all, murder is a relatively mild one that's only severe if you're hunting for sport, and cannibalism features prominently with an array of fine distinctions.

Changelings mostly ditch the standard sins in favor of an extremely legalistic tangle of requirements to keep oaths explicitly stated. If you can rationalize your way around an oath so that you completely violate the intent while technically obeying the wording, that's a positive quality.

Geniuses in the fanmade Genius: The Transgression have a system representing their sense of attachment to humanity, with dings for cutting yourself off from other people either figuratively (spending a lot of time by yourself) or literally (heavy use of cybernetics) featuring prominently, as well as penalties for things that don't appear on the usual Karma Meter because people don't really have the capability to do so frequently (such as creating life in the laboratory).

Theatre

The Club: There is an infamous level of casual violence discussed among the cast, particularly against women. Even knowing the story is a deliberate satire of macho club culture of the 1970s, many modern-day viewers find it very uncomfortable seeing the characters talking about punching their wives or eighteen-year-old strippers like it's nothing more than a minor character flaw.

Hamilton takes place in the late 1700s/early 1800s and some of the social trappings of the time couldn't be avoided. Slavery is still a thing, but most of the main characters are against it or indifferent at worst (even though this required a fair deal of artistic license; many of the characters in the play owned slaves in real life). Also, the play isn't shy about the limited opportunities for women, who couldn't vote ("It's 1800, ladies tell your husbands vote for Burr!") and had limited career options. The vivacious and opinionated Angelica Schuyler could have very well been an accomplished politician herself had she been born two centuries later, but during that time period, "[her] only job is to marry rich."

Heathers takes place in 1989, so obviously there's gonna be at least some of this, but the number "Dead Gay Son" qualifies as a mix of this and an in-universe case of Fair for Its Day; after JD (with Veronica's help) murders Jerk Jocks Kurt Kelley and Ram Sweeney, he makes their deaths look like a suicide pact that paints them as star-crossed gay lovers, when in reality, they were homophobic perverted dudebros who JD murdered because they spread a rumor about having a threesome with his girlfriend as revenge for not letting them date-rape her. Because of this, Kurt and Ram's formerly quite vehemently homophobic fathers decide to stand up for gay rights in their honor, which is fine and all...but the song they sing about it posthumously flanderizes Kurt and Ram into Camp Gay stereotypes—stating that they "weren't dirty, they just had flair", making references to ribbons, rhinestones, pearly necklaces and purses, deciding that Kurt and Ram must've been fans of the Village People and Judy Garland in life and just generally painting them as having extremely feminine qualities that they clearly didn't actually have when they were alive. Possibly justified, as the suicide note JD faked for Kurt and Ram painted them as having hid their "gay forbidden love" from a disapproving world, though the fact that the first assumptions their fathers make are "rhinestones, disco, pearly necklaces and Judy Garland" is still pretty telling.

Lizzie is set in 1892, so the antiquated social mores of the Victorian era are in full swing. Alice is forced to keep her sexuality secret, because anyone finding out could lead to her relationships, prospects, and possibly her entire life being ruined. Bridget assumes that the murderer of the Bordens was "a lunatic, a foreigner, a beast." The most disturbing example, however, is that it's heavily implied that the townspeople know, or at least suspect, that Lizzie's father is raping her... and yet, no one has tried to help her. No calls to the police, no attempts at helping her escape, not even asking her if she's alright. Lizzie doesn't even consider asking anyone for help, either. Back in the Victorian era, people were far more likely to turn a blind eye to sexual assault and parental abuse, and if Lizzie had told, it's very possible she wouldn't have been believed or taken seriously.

Visual Novels

There's a mostly comedic example in Fate/hollow ataraxia with Lancer. Unlike the other Servants who are similarly temporally displaced from their origins, Lancer only superficially blends in. He's completely unable to understand why Shirou might have issue with Lancer trying to sleep with teenage girls, is ready to kill people that Shirou thinks are his friends at any time, and seems to feel that anything he can take from their actual owners is his.

In Camp Camp we have the Flower Scouts, who abide by very strict gender roles; they think girls should only be concerned with looks and boys, while guys should be rugged and manly. This goes so far, that they ran off the much less traditional Nikki for not conforming to their views, leading to Neil calling them "ignorant, fucking cunts" for this attitude.

Doris & Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out of Prison, set in 1922, has Doris, a white woman, be imprisoned for just nine months for running over a baby, while Mary-Anne, a black woman, be sentenced for fifty years for slamming a door.

Webcomics

In this page Sil'lice from Drowtales illustrate the difference in in-world values, which is one of the reason that characters that come across as Badass, Axe-Crazy, or extremist to people from our world sometimes are portrayed in a positive light. This along with a world of Gray and Grey Morality leads to a lot of debate among the readers.

Trolls have a lot of Values Dissonance built into their society, but it's best illustrated with Tavros's interaction with Jade where he manipulates Becquerel into rerouting a bullet that would've killed Jade... to kill her grandfather instead. He sees this as a perfectly heroic act though, since in Troll society, adult members of their species don't raise young at all, and will generally mooch off of, or outright kill young trolls that they come across, and he thought that Becquerel was, in fact, Jade's guardian and Grandpa Harley to be an "intruder".

A Running Gag involves the trolls being shocked about the humans having buckets lying around: buckets are part of the trolls' reproduction process so seeing buckets all of a sudden would be akin to being flashed. Hilarity Ensues when John, convinced by Vriska that trolls consider cleaning supplies to be indecent, kicks an imp in the face for carrying a broom. Being culturally sensitive is really hard work.

Comes up fairly frequently in Dominic Deegan; most of the non-human cultures have their own distinct values, such as the werewolves being unconcerned with nudity and valuing True Companions above all else, or the Orcs approaching magic much differently than humans (for one thing, they believe ice is sacred, which allows orcs to use ice to great effect against demonic forces) but some of the clans also having extremely misogynistic values. The fanbase, as with nearly everything else, is sharply divided on this; some people feel it is perfectly justified for non-human cultures to have distinct values, while the other side claims that orc culture is insane and Mookie is wrong for depicting them so.

In Erfworld, units are compelled to serve leaders and causes by a loyalty mechanic. Parson Gotti, meanwhile, is from our world and has these strange notions of "free will", "choice", and "not taking sexual advantage of underlings". Egad. Made worse when Maggie, a spellcaster and therefore one of the few units who exercise some amount of free will, mocks him for being reluctant to take advantage of the situation.

In TwoKinds, heroic-ish character Eric is a Keidran slave dealer. He's downright progressive in his treatment of Keidrans compared to most other human characters (he refuses to put "control spells" on his favorite slave, Kathrin, and is more than willing to deal with free Keidrans as equals), but he still sees his other two slaves, Mike and Evals, as little more than his property and refuses to sell them to Trace (who wants to free them). He later reveals that this is because he can't; Templar law not only forbids freeing your own Keidran slaves, but forbids selling them to someone you know is going to free them. Doing so results in prison for the humans and reenslavement for the Keidran. Eric eventually agrees to sell his slaves to Trace anyway.

Rarely used in Arthur, King of Time and Space, where the artist takes the view that, since the Arthurian legends are ahistorical anyway, there's no reason the characters shouldn't have modern sensibilities, even in the baseline arc. It crops up sometimes though, such as the idea that betrothing a young girl to an older man isn't creepy unless it's Agravaine.

In GastroPhobia Phobia and Gastro own a slave, though they later try to set him free, which the rest of Ancient Greek society doesn't see it as big deal. Klepto, instead of getting set free, gets repossessed by the government because the law in which Phobia acquired him only applies to natural born greek citizens, "... not women or barbarians and certainly not barbarian women", implying they don't see women as citizens.

Several characters are the slaves of other characters, with none of this being looked at oddly or negatively. In fact, the receiving of a girl's first slave is treated more like getting a new pet than anything else, with the mother telling the girls to "take care of them" and that it's a "big responsibility". However, in actual practice, the situation often seems to be "slavery" in name only. Given the general treatment of women during that time period, being a slave to an Amazon was probably a reasonably sweet deal.

Since it is set in an all-female society, lesbian relationships are the norm (usually between mistress/slave) and sex with men is considered a necessary duty for reproduction. A woman actually wanting to have sex with a man is considered a sexual deviant.

The main function of the army has switched from fighting other humans to fighting Plague Zombie monsters, causing a Gender Is No Object situation. However, this also means that not being The Immune bans people from serving on the frontlines.

Christianity is effectively a dead religion, with Norse pantheon worshipping being the new majority religion, by virtue of Iceland, by far the country with the largest number of survivors, being one of the countries following it. Minorities can be found in the form of Atheism and Finnish pantheon worshipping, and are apparently left to their own devices. Both religions acknowledge the other's gods to be real, and the only real point of contention with the atheists seems to be over the existence of magic (which has definitely come back, but only in theistic nations).

El Goonish Shive: Occurs with Magus, who is from a parallel universe. In that universe, magic that permanently changes a person's sex is readily available, genuinely making one's sex a choice rather than something one is born with, so their views on sexism and gender roles are... different. It's noted that there is no stigma against transgender individuals or non-heterosexual romances in his world due to this magic being available. However, they fully embrace the idea that certain occupations are more suited for one sex over the other, and Magus looks down on a friend of his because she chose to pursue a career as a warrior while remaining female, saying that it's utterly absurd to make such a choice. Magus himself was born female, but changed his sex (and gender identity) upon choosing the path of a warrior, because "men make better fighters". This is rather sharply at odds with the modern Western ideal of no discrimination between the sexes regarding occupation.

Gunnerkrigg Court: Stated in comic by one of the characters as being one of the (if not the) major reasons why the Court and the Woods do not currently get along.

Played for Laughs in Freefall. Sam is a scavenger, Florence is a pack predator. They have very different ways of interpreting things.

Land Games: The player's society is extremely imperialistic, regularly invading and conquering foreign worlds. Jayle is the only one who has a problem with this.

This is done in Three Worlds Collide where future social mores aren't at all like present ones, much like present ones would be almost incomprehensible those of several hundred years in the past. A particular example is future humans' views on (legalized) rape, which are so divorced from modern mores that the latter are incomprehensible to the protagonists even after being explained.

To a lesser extent, SCP-1841-EX. For the longest time, the Foundation and its predecessors feared that the sudden popularity of musicians such as Tupac Shakur, Elvis Presley, and even Franz Liszt was the result of a memetic agent.

An example occurs in Chaos Fighters, particularly in Lefrad, which consists of continents has different administration systems. Yedrei-Phlaq confrontation happened an unspecified time prior to the start of the entire main series, which is partly due to their leader trying to force their administration systems to others (Yedrei uses monarchy while Phlaq uses democracy. As the result, in Chaos Fighters-Route of Peaks, the government of Tziac sent only one person to join the main characters' party to eliminate the mountain bandits, fearing of bringing significant casualties to the soldiers, which happened during the confrontation. Even other countries merely used long range weaponry to eliminate them, despite sending slightly more (read: two) people to aid the main characters' party. This also leads to another dissonance where in Chaos Fighters-Route of Land, almost every country in Yedrei continent gave military support of various degree to help the Estau rebel pact, which is a military force to capture Lestreb from the demons' reign.

Bravemule uses this in its portrayal of the dwarf culture of Dwarf Fortress. The dwarves are violently isolationist, vicious, and militaristic, perceiving anything they are not familiar with as a threat and slaughtering it accordingly. This leads to the fort's downfall when Behem's deadfall trap in the trade depot causes the humans to go to war with Bravemule, and Traeme fully expects to be remembered as a hero for ordering Exi to breach the Underworld when the humans get the upper hand. They also consideroctagons to be unholy.

Kung Fury is set in the '80s and meant to invoke feeling like a movie from that, complete with a homophobic comment. Early on, the police chief says the mayor is up his ass "like a fag on Viagra."note Which is an Anachronism Stew itself, as Viagra was not manufactured until the '90s.

Western Animation

In Barbie in the Pink Shoes, this is seen with Albrecht and Hilarion attempting to marry Kristyn/Giselle. When told she's 17, they say that just because she's a little old doesn't mean they can't marry.

Bojack Horseman features BoJack's former friend and partner Herb getting blacklisted from his own series after being exposed as homosexual. The decade? The 1990s, where it was meant to be one of the more "progressive" decades but even a lot of staunch leftists and sexual libertines tended to mistreat homosexuals back then (albeit more in the "taunting and mocking" than "firing and blacklisting" sense, mind).

This ties into why Beatrice fell for Butterscotch to begin with, as her father had sent her to college to get her MRS Degree (even calling it such), and she wound up getting a bachelor's degree instead of a bachelor, and connected with Butterscotch on a rebellious level.

Deconstructed with Beatrice in Season 4. As it turns out, Beatrice saw little wrong with giving Hollyhock amphetemines to bring down her weight. This leads to some heady moments near the end of the season, as is typical of the series.

F is for Family is set in the early 1970s, and does not sugarcoat the drastic differences in culture between then and now, even as it plays them for laughs.

Family Guy does this in the episode "Peter's Progress" showing Peter's ancestor Griffin Peterson first settling in the New World.

Griffin: We will have equal rights for all. Except blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, gays, women, Muslims. Uhmm... Everybody who's not a white man. And I mean white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full-blooded whites. No, you know what? Not even whites. Nobody gets any rights. Ahhh...America!

In the episode "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", Joe's new automated surveillance van is shown to have a feature where it deploys two mechanical arms to arrest a perpetrator. After Peter tries it out, Cleveland tries to do the same, but once the van detects Cleveland is black it marks him as a minority suspect, begins beating him with truncheons and plants a gun next to him.

In "I Dream of Jesus" the Griffins go to a 50s themed restaurant. When Cleveland tries to enter the employees blast him away with a hose, but he fondly declares that it takes him back.

Futurama had a weird case of this. To show that times have changed, there are a lot of cultural differences. Public nudity, polygamy, suicide, drug addiction (cf. the vending machines that sell crack cocaine and advertise it like a soda with words like "Delicious" and "Refreshing"), and cannibalism are all relatively normal while robosexuality (humans having romantic or sexual relationships with robots) and homosexual marriage are still taboo (cf. "A Taste of Freedom"'s scene where, after the Supreme Court ruled polygamy constitutional, Zoidberg's lawyer gets booed loudly after he says, "I can't wait to tell my husband!" Gay marriage is shown to be legal at least, as is marriage between ghosts and horses), and sewer mutants are considered inferior genetic scum that have to live underground by law.

A fantastic variation on Gargoyles. Since gargoyles raise their young communally and Goliath is a traditionalist, his attitudes about parenting and children are different from the humans around him. He's willing to accept Thailog since he's only one of three fathers, but has trouble with his biological daughter Angela since she insists that he is her only father.

The episode "Legends" was created as an homage to The Golden Age of Comic Books, and features plot-lines and events taken whole-cloth from the earlier era. However, this does not always translate too well to the current age, and Hawkgirl is rather resistant when Black Siren asks for her help making cookies and letting "the men" talk. Later, John Stewart, the (black) Green Lantern, is not entirely sure how to react when he is told that he is "a credit to [his] people." Both statements were perfectly normal (even progressive) back in their proper age, when having black or female heroes at all was amazing, but cause discomfort when brought to modern people.

The time the group has to travel back to WWII to stop Vandal Savage from giving the Nazis a technological edge, although this is downplayed: several characters are blatantly shocked that Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl are, well, women. Not much is outright said about John Stewart's presence as an African American showing up in the middle of a White battalion, but that is mostly because they are in the middle of being nailed by an artillery barrage, and he is handy with a submachine gun.

In the episode, "The Last Temptation of Krust", Krusty performs at a comedy festival, but not really having created any new material in years, his old bits are incredibly outdated, especially an extremely cringeworthy Asian stereotype. He almost retires after the negative responses.

Invoked but subverted in "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"; Krusty's rival for congress shows an old sketch where he interprets insensitive stereotypes in a UN meeting (A strereotypical frenchman who stinks worse than his french cheese, a potheaded rastafarian from Jamaica and a San Francisco homosexual). Krusty tries to defend himself by saying that it was a different time... 1998.

In the episode "Lisa's Wedding", which takes place fifteen years into the future, this quote from Marge shows what type of content will be acceptable to show on broadcast TV, and doubles as Biting-the-Hand Humor:

[Lying in bed with Homer while watching TV]Marge: Ugh! The Fox Network became a hardcore porn channel so gradually, I didn't even notice.

The episode "Homer Is Where The Art Isn't", we see Manacek, an stereotypical 1970s-era P.I. whose attitudes towards women (including knocking one out cold) are now seen as incredibly misogynistic (specially considering that the episode aired at a time #MeToo and women's lib were hot topics, whereas the former did not exist during production).

In "Stealing First Base", Bart asks Grandpa for help with his latest Girl of the Week, and Grandpa, working off 1940's-era logic, advises him to give her a "Shut Up" Kiss. When Bart kisses the girl out of nowhere, she begins screaming and he gets suspended for sexual assault.

Marge: Why didn't you just tell him to bash her over the head with a club and drag her into a cave! Grandpa: Whoa, third base? He's a little young for that.

In "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts", Superintendent Chalmers takes over educating Bart, and later other troubled boys. Chalmers hasn't taught since The '80s, and is disdainful of modern teaching practices. Although he does actually start to make progress with his students, he takes the boys on an unauthorised camping trip in the woods where Nelson is hurt. Chalmers thinks that the (admittedly minor) injuries are no big deal, and is stunned when he is fired.

A lot of the humor around Mr. Burns centers around his bizarrely ancient standards of moral judgement, which run the gamut from Victorian England dandy to slaveholding confederate.

Time Pervs (a recurring sketch on the short-lived sketch show VH1 Ill-ustrated) is about Bill Clinton, Pee-Wee Herman and Larry Flint using a time-traveling wheelchair to perv out on hot women in history. They decide to see Helen of Troy in person, expecting an Hourglass Hottie only to find she's practically Mrs. Turnblad, yet a guard lovingly talks of the same features that creep them out and are aghast that they're actually turned off. Truth in Television considering how the ancient Greek standards of beauty wildly differs from the American standards of beauty.

Occurs several times in The Venture Bros. in flashbacks and appearances of the old Team Venture: a giant in the team is called Humongoloid; Col. Gentleman refers to the Japanese Kano's "racial handicap"; and of course:

Announcer: It's The Rusty Venture Show! Brought to you by Smoking!

That episode of X-Men where they travel back in time to the sixties to save Professor X's life. When Storm isn't allowed in a whites-only bar, she finds it quaint that for once she's being discriminated for her skin color as opposed to her powers.

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